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An interesting thing is happening because of Colorado's new anti-flaring law. They are filling a shipping container with GPUs and dropping it off at well-sites to mine bitcoins. Seems silly to me but apparently they think it will be profitable.

https://www.crusoeenergy.com/news-and-media/2020/1/10/denver...

I'll believe in public transportation in CA whenever Marin county gets a BART station. Trust me if that happens we'll be able to ride our flying pigs everywhere.

I think I follow that. My main point is that outside of NYC and SF, Uber/lyft worked by creating new utility not by taking it from taxis. Now the state is steeping in and killing that utility without providing an alternative.

Everyone keeps saying the substitute for Uber/Lyft is taxis. Maybe this is HN bay-area bias but it is just wrong. The substitute for Uber/Lyft in 95% of the US is driving your own car! Driving your own car has significant externalities, eg. More need for parking, more emissions, more drunk driving.

I don't live in CA but used to do a fair amount of work travel out there. If they don't have Uber/Lyft in the future, I'll just make work get me a rental car.

Some people want to start giving out Oral Polio Vaccine (OPV) because it kicks the immune system into action. It is very safe, if you have already had a polio vaccine. I believe it has been shown that OPV reduced seasonal flu in areas where it was distributed.

https://science.sciencemag.org/content/368/6496/1187